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The landlord fucking charged me a cleaning fee for the sheet left on the bedbug infested mattress
The landlord fucking charged me a cleaning fee for the sheet left on the bedbug infested mattress
Marxism is completely falsifiable and it’s why I like it. I don’t know if that’s relevant here.
It would only be non-falsifiable if Marx said that it would be impossible to measure or predict the mechanisms of social change. We can totally measure social habits and most of our measurements tend towards Marx being correct.
If it’s during a revolution and people are being held at gunpoint to give up their property, I would counter that an extremely large portion of wealthy people would give up their wealth without much issue at all.
I meant spoiling
mods please ban OP they’re (or idk what @pancake ‘s pronouns are) spoiling deltarune
I feel like the person had legitimate spiritual beliefs in the thread
oh it’s like with how “rationalists” think theyve invented ethics when recreating it for the 69420th time
look at me over here, assuming any part of hellworld works. what a stupid
Do popsci authors have a reputation?
My mental health has been repeatedly ruined by scientists reporting similarly ground-breaking and kind of shaky findings. Am I supposed to… not freak out about any supposed scientific fact that gets more than 1000 upvotes on Reddit?
Fuck
imagine thinking Marxism is just an reinvention of Great Man Theory. Holy shit lmao
tbf the tolerance paradox is legitimately important
libshit is libshit though
weird thing for someone who probably likes azov battalion to say
Tarot apparently has actually benefit as a tool for self-introspection, and has a decent community of people who believe in it without wanting any profit from it, but i imagine the industry as a whole is garbage
“we care about the troops” only insofar that that care aids them in murdering people
if you give 5$ to a homeless veteran but refuse go glorify their murder or innocent people then that makes you a filthy communist bastard
Carnal pleasures and animalistic instincts are good and normal actually
I’m not sure what the Great Journey is but most people probably won’t take it if it involves denouncing those things
Weird child rape person in the OP is just unhinged, evil, and completely disconnected from themselves. our “animalistic instincts” tell us not to rape children all the time, and those whose instincts don’t shouldn’t be allowed near children in general
Edit: I think I just replied seriously to a Halo shitpost, fml
Omg a company scamming its customers… no way… I’ve never seen an American company do that… /s
Then I would agree with you in principle, but I don’t think a revolution is impossible in the imperial core, then. White people just make it significantly harder.
There is no way to retreat into a pre-internet era. Instead of self-flagellating and guilt-tripping, pretending we can escape our wired future by unplugging, we need to take our participation in the medium seriously and in a way that integrates well with our offline organization
GOOD quote
This missed the historical context for why downvotes were disabled on Hexbear in the first place. Moderators were trying to implement trans-friendly policies and features like pronouns, and reactionary weirdos kept downvoting the shit out of people who agreed with and wanted those features. Mods tried to ban based on upvotes and downvotes, but it didn’t work.
I think the assumption that any site’s general culture will be correct on an issue is a faulty one. Yeah, it’s going to be generally correct about international politics or Marxism or something everyone researched on the site probably (when it’s on Hexbear or Lemmygrad at least), but anyone who’s part of a smaller or more fucked over minority has to basically fight an uphill battle to even be listened to even with downvotes off. With downvotes on, someone asking for accommodations or sympathy in a radical or surprising way that other users haven’t seen before will just be shut down entirely. I think a good example of this is how I’ve seen people constantly make fun of others for stuff like not showering and, when people talk about how those with depression often do their best but can’t manage it and so making fun of someone for that can be hurtful, they were just ridiculed. If downvotes were enabled most complaints about ableism or more obscure forms of anti-queer oppression would be pushed to the fringes and ignored.
The main issue with downvotes are that they allow those with hegemonic beliefs to enforce them without considering why they hold those beliefs in the first place.
So ultimately, it’s a trade off between if you want to be open to more radical theory that people would have a knee-jerk reaction to and downvote, or be more closed to that theory but allow site members to enforce the popular opinion more strongly